Rapid7 Observed Exploitation of Adobe ColdFusion

Rapid7’s Threat Intelligence and Detection Engineering team has identified active exploitation of Adobe ColdFusion in multiple customer environments. The observed activity dates back to January 2023 and has not been tied back to a specific CVE at this time. IOCs are included below. Rapid7 has...

CVE-2023-22501: Critical Broken Authentication Flaw in Jira Service Management Products

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. On February 1, 2023, Atlassian published an advisory for CVE-2023-22501, a critical broken authentication vulnerability affecting its Jira Service Management Server and Data Center...

The Hidden Harm of Silent Patches

Hey all. I'm about to head off to RSAC 2022, but I wanted to jot down some thoughts I've had lately on a particularly squirrelly issue that comes up occasionally in coordinated vulnerability disclosure CVD — the issue of silent patches, and how they tend to help focused attackers and harm IT...

Active Exploitation of Multiple Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerabilities

Rapid7 managed services teams have observed exploitation of Adobe ColdFusion in multiple customer environments. The attacks our team has responded to thus far appear to be chaining CVE-2023-29298, a Rapid7-discovered access control bypass in ColdFusion that was disclosed on July 11, with an...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of SMTP

Welcome to the NICER Protocol Deep Dive blog series! When we started researching what all was out on the internet way back in January, we had no idea we'd end up with a hefty, 137-page tome of a research report. The sheer length of such a thing might put off folks who might otherwise learn a thin...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 12/13/2024

It’s raining RCEs! It's the second week of December and the weather forecast announced another storm of RCEs in Metasploit-Framework land. This weekly release includes RCEs for Moodle e-Learning platform, Primefaces, WordPress Really Simple SSL and CyberPanel along with two modules to change...

CVE-2024-45195: Apache OFBiz Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Fixed)

Apache OFBiz below 18.12.16 is vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution on Linux and Windows. An attacker with no valid credentials can exploit missing view authorization checks in the web application to execute arbitrary code on the server. Exploitation is facilitated by bypassing...

Widespread Exploitation of Zyxel Network Devices

Rapid7 is tracking reports of ongoing exploitation of CVE-2023-28771, a critical unauthenticated command injection vulnerability affecting multiple Zyxel networking devices. The vulnerability is present in the default configuration of vulnerable devices and is exploitable in the Wide Area Network...

What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q1 2023 in Review

In Q1, our team continued to focus on driving better customer outcomes with InsightVM and Nexpose by further improving efficiency and performance. While many of these updates are under the hood, you may have started to notice faster vulnerability checks available for the recent ETRs or an upgrade...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Desert heat not the 1999 film This week was more quiet than normal with Black Hat USA and DEF CON, but that didn’t stop the team from delivering some small enhancements and bug fixes! We are also excited to see two new modules 15519 and 15520 from researcher Jacob Baines’ DEF CON talk ​​Bring You...

What’s New in InsightIDR: Q1 2021 in Review

Back at the start of the year, we reflected on some of our 2020 InsightIDR product investments and took a look at what was ahead in 2021 see the blog here. As the first quarter of the year comes to a close, we wanted to offer a closer look at some of the recent updates and releases in InsightIDR,...

Investigating a SharePoint Compromise: IR Tales from the Field

Executive summary Rapid7’s Incident Response team recently investigated a Microsoft Exchange service account with domain administrator privileges. Our investigation uncovered an attacker who accessed a server without authorization and moved laterally across the network, compromising the entire...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/23/2024

LDAP Capture module Metasploit now has an LDAP capture module thanks to the work of JustAnda7. This work was completed as part of the Google Summer of Code program. When the module runs it will by default require privileges to listen on port 389. The module implements a default implementation for...

SonicWall Recommends Urgent Patching for GMS and Analytics CVEs

On Wednesday, July 12, 2023, security firm SonicWall published an urgent security advisory warning customers of 15 new vulnerabilities affecting on-premise instances of their Global Management System GMS and Analytics products. Four of the vulnerabilities carry critical severity ratings:...

CVE-2023-27350: Ongoing Exploitation of PaperCut Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2023-27350 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in PaperCut MF/NG print management software that allows attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM on vulnerable targets. A patch is available for this vulnerability and should be applied on an...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Spring Cloud Gateway RCE This week, a new module that exploits a code injection vulnerability in Spring Cloud Gateway CVE-2022-22947 has been added by @Ayantaker. Versions 3.1.0 and 3.0.0 to 3.0.6 are vulnerable if the Gateway Actuator endpoint is enabled, exposed and unsecured. The module sends ...

Rapid7's 2021 ICER Takeaways: Email Security Among the Fortune 500

This blog post covers key takeaways from our 2021 Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER: Fortune 500. Original analysis for these findings was conducted by Kwan Lin. We all know and love—or at least begrudgingly rely upon—email. It is a pillar of modern communications, but is unfortunately also...

SonicWall SNWLID-2021-0001 Zero-Day and SolarWinds’ 2021 CVE Trifecta: What You Need to Know

Not content with the beating it laid down in January, 2021 continues to deliver with an unpatched zero-day exposure in some SonicWall appliances and three moderate-to-critical CVEs in SolarWinds software. We dig into the details below. Urgent mitigations required for SonicWall SMA 100 Series...

CVE-2024-3400: Critical Command Injection Vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Firewalls

On Friday, April 12, Palo Alto Networks published an advisory on CVE-2024-3400, a CVSS 10 zero-day vulnerability in several versions of PAN-OS, the operating system that runs on the company’s firewalls. According to the vendor advisory, if conditions for exploitability are met, the vulnerability...

Introducing: ‘Saved Filters’ in InsightCloudSec

Last year, when we launched Layered Context in InsightCloudSec, we knew we had something great on our hands. Not just because we provided a single view for cloud security practitioners to see their full cloud risk posture though, if we do say so ourselves, that’s pretty sweet. No, we knew we had...

Active Exploitation of ZK Framework CVE-2022-36537

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. Rapid7 is aware of active exploitation of CVE-2022-36537 in vulnerable versions of ConnectWise R1Soft Server Backup Manager software. The root cause of the vulnerability is an...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Bofloader - Windows Meterpreter Gets Beacon Object File Loader Support This week brings a new and frequently requested feature to the Windows Meterpreter, the Beacon Object File loader. This new extension, bofloader, allows for users to execute Beacon Object Files as written for either Cobalt...

Rapid7 Releases New Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER): FTSE 350

Today, we are excited to release the second report in our Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER series, which digs into cyber-exposure among organizations in the U.K.’s FTSE 350. This series focuses on five key areas we believe CISOs at mega-corporations actually have a shot at accomplishing, and...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 04/25/2025

AD CS workflow improvement with new PKCS12 features Given the increasing popularity of AD CS misconfiguration exploitation in recent years, Metasploit has been consistently improving its capabilities in this area. This week’s release introduces a new certs command to the msfconsole, enabling user...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/21/2024

Argument Injection for PHP on Windows This week includes modules that target file traversal and arbitrary file read vulnerabilities for software such as Apache, SolarWinds and Check Point, with the highlight being a module for the recent PHP vulnerability submitted by sfewer-r7. This module...

Explanation of New Authenticated Scanning PCI DSS Requirement 11.3.1.2 in PCI DSS V4.0 and how InsightVM can help meet the Requirement

By: Dominick Vitolo, VP of Security Services, MegaplanIT As a Certified Qualified Security Assessor QSA company and a trusted Rapid7 partner, MegaplanIT is committed to guiding organizations through the complexities of compliance and security standards. PCI DSS version 4.0 is a significant update...

[Security Nation] Curt Barnard on Defaultinator (Black Hat Arsenal Preview)

!\Security Nation\ Curt Barnard on Defaultinator \Black Hat Arsenal Preview\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Curt Barnard, Principal Security Researcher at Rapid7, about a new tool he’ll be presenting a...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Redis Sandbox Escape Our very own Jake Baines wrote a module that performs a sandbox escape on Redis versions between 5.0.0 and 6.1.0 and achieves remote code execution as the redis user. Redis installations can be password protected, so this module supports exploiting the vulnerability with and...

[Security Nation] Rob Graham on Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium

!\Security Nation\ Rob Graham on Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposiumhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/09/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Rob Graham of Errata Security about his experience attending pillow magnate Mike Lindell's Cyber...

Kubernetes Namespaces Are Not as Secure as You Think

In a previous article, we described how the usage of namespaces in Kubernetes significantly simplifies the management of a Kubernetes cluster. However, managing multiple microservices on the same cluster comes with a security cost when not planned correctly. A common misconception around namespac...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/13/2026

SolarWinds Web Help Desk Our very own sfewer-r7 has developed an exploit module for the SolarWinds Web Help Desk vulnerabilities CVE-2025-40536 and CVE-2025-40551. On successful exploitation the session will be as running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. For more information see the Rapid7’s SolarWinds We...

Modular Java Backdoor Dropped in Cleo Exploitation Campaign

Many thanks to Rapid7 MDR and incident response teams for their contributions to this analysis. While investigating incidents related to Cleo software exploitation, Rapid7 Labs and MDR observed a novel, multi-stage attack that deploys an encoded Java Archive JAR payload. Our investigation reveale...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Veeam Backup & Replication

On Wednesday, September 4, 2024, backup and recovery software provider Veeam released their September security bulletin disclosing various vulnerabilities in Veeam products. One of the higher-severity vulnerabilities included in the bulletin is CVE-2024-40711, a critical unauthenticated remote co...

Velociraptor 0.7.2 Release: Digging Deeper than Ever with EWF Support, Dynamic DNS and More

By Dr. Mike Cohen and Carlos Canto Rapid7 is very excited to announce that version 0.7.2 of Velociraptor is now fully available for download. In this post we’ll discuss some of the interesting new features. EWF Support Velociraptor has introduced the ability to analyze dead disk images in the pas...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/15/2024

New module content 3 GitLab Password Reset Account Takeover Authors: asterion04 and h00die Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 18716 contributed by h00die Path: admin/http/gitlabpasswordresetaccounttakeover AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-7028 Description: This adds an exploit module that leverages an...

CVE-2022-47966: Rapid7 Observed Exploitation of Critical ManageEngine Vulnerability

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. Rapid7 is responding to various compromises arising from the exploitation of CVE-2022-47966, a pre-authentication remote code execution RCE vulnerability impacting at least 24 on-premi...

CVE-2022-27511: Citrix ADM Remote Device Takeover

On Monday, June 14, 2022, Citrix published an advisory on CVE-2022-27511, a critical improper access control vulnerability affecting their Application Delivery Management ADM product. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can leverage CVE-2022-27511 to reset administrator credentials to the default...

[Security Nation] Brian Honan on creating Ireland's first CERT

!\Security Nation\ Brian Honan on creating Ireland's first CERThttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Brian Honan of BH Consulting. Jen and Tod chat with Brian about his experience as a founder of Ireland's first...

Unauthenticated CrushFTP Zero-Day Enables Complete Server Compromise

Rapid7 vulnerability researcher Ryan Emmons contributed to this blog. On Friday, April 19, 2024, managed file transfer vendor CrushFTP released information to a private mailing list on a new zero-day vulnerability affecting versions below 10.7.1 and 11.1.0 as well as legacy 9.x versions across al...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

C is for cookie And that’s good enough for Apache CouchDB, apparently. Our very own Jack Heysel added an exploit module based on CVE-2022-24706 targeting CouchDB prior to 3.2.2, leveraging a special default ‘monster’ cookie that allows users to run OS commands. This fake computer I just made says...

Rapid7 Joins Statement On DMCA Lawsuits Against Security Tools

Rapid7 has joined a statement from members of the cybersecurity community cautioning against using Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA to suppress beneficial security tools. In the past, Rapid7 has written extensively about DMCA Sec. 1201’s impact on performing independent...

Introducing the 2020 Vulnerability Intelligence Report: 50 CVEs that Made Headlines in 2020

2020 was a tumultuous year for vulnerability risk management. Defenders had to contend with a growing volume of high-priority security threats, many of them in internet-facing technologies deployed to enable and secure a suddenly remote workforce. New communications from the U.S. National Securit...

Patch Tuesday - June 2025

Microsoft is addressing 67 vulnerabilities this June 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for just one of the vulnerabilities published today, and that is reflected in CISA KEV. Separately, Microsoft is aware of existing public disclosure for one other freshly...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/11/2025

Spring Exploits This weekly release of Metasploit Framework includes new RCE exploit modules for several vulnerable applications: Appsmith, a low-code application platform which contains a misconfiguration on PostgreSQL CVE-2024-55964; Pandora FMS, a monitoring solution, where, once gained access...

[Security Nation] Taki Uchiyama of Panasonic on Product Security and Incident Response

!\Security Nation\ Taki Uchiyama of Panasonic on Product Security and Incident Responsehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/09/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Taki Uchiyama about his work on Panasonic’s Product Security Incident Response...

Automated remediation level 4: Actual automation

Let’s get to automatically remediating already! This entry will be the last in our series based on The 4 Levels of Automated Remediation. After the previous 3 steps—where we discussed everything from logging to best practices to account hygiene—it’s time to talk about the actions that really let...

SolarWinds SUNBURST Backdoor Supply Chain Attack: What You Need to Know

On Dec. 12, 2020, FireEye provided detailed information on a widespread attack campaign involving a backdoored component of the SolarWinds Orion platform, which is used by organizations to monitor and manage IT infrastructure. FireEye has given the campaign an identifier of UNC2452 and is further...

Metasploit 2024 Annual Wrap-Up

Another year has come and gone, and the Metasploit team has taken some time to review the year’s notable additions. This year saw some great new features added, Metasploit 6.4 released and a slew of new modules. We’re grateful to the community members new and old that have submitted modules and...

AppDomain Manager Injection: New Techniques For Red Teams

AppDomain Manager Injection is a very versatile and useful technique for red team operators. This technique allows you to effectively turn any Microsoft.NET application on a Windows host into a lolbin Living Off the Land Binary by forcing the application to load a specially crafted .NET assembly,...

[Security Nation] Megan Stifel and Ciaran Martin discuss the sticky issue of ransomware payments

!\Security Nation\ Megan Stifel and Ciaran Martin discuss the sticky issue of ransomware paymentshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/05/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we are joined by Ciaran Martin of Oxford University and Megan Stifel of the Cyber Global...